Creative Sundays

Design. Illustration. Stories. Side projects. One honest note every other Sunday.

Joe Gillespie Joe Gillespie

The Central Archives

Deep beneath the lost city of Iron Providence lies the Central Archives—a place built to preserve the truth, but where Ember, Ollie, Sully, and W72A discover that history is often written by those who control the records.

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The Summer We Started a Robot War

Read Chapter One: When a lost stickball rolls into an abandoned sewer, three kids accidentally awaken a forgotten robot—and uncover the first clue to a war that was never supposed to be remembered.

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The Big Bad Guy: Crimson Marauder

A silent hunter from an ancient order, the Crimson Marauder begins as a programmed force of control, but as his mission starts to fracture, so does his understanding of who, or what, he’s meant to be.

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When the Plan Changes

Sometimes creativity isn’t about the plan — it’s about fixing the problems the plan reveals.

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The Brighton Sword

The Brighton Sword is a precision-forged relic of the Corporate Wars, engineered to sever drone cores—and decide who wins when everything falls apart.

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Ollie Goes For A Stroll

Meet Ollie the frog—the brains of the gang who can decode ancient tech but sometimes misses what’s right in front of him.

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Building the World of Iron Providence

An illustrated adventure in progress, Iron Providence follows three kids and a forgotten robot on a journey through mystery, friendship, and the remnants of a lost world.

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Stitch Still Rules

Disney’s Stitch is everywhere again, and I’m sharing how his iconic style influenced my work

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